Separate trial, transfer of venue sought for ex-CIA official (Dusty Foggo)

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070502-9999-1m2foggo.html

Separate trial, transfer of venue sought for ex-CIA official

By Kelly Thornton
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

May 2, 2007

DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – Lawyers for former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, who is charged in a corruption case spun from the Randy “Duke” Cunningham bribery scandal, have asked a judge to move his trial to Washington, D.C., and to allow him to be tried separately from fellow defendant Brent Wilkes.

In the request for a transfer, filed in federal court this week, lawyers reasoned that the case is centered mostly in the district that includes Washington, D.C., with most of the alleged crimes occurring there. Foggo, his family, his lawyers, and most potential witnesses for both the prosecution and defense reside there.

As for the motion to create two trials, the lawyers wrote that Foggo has been unfairly linked to the Cunningham case in San Diego news reports.

“Mr. Foggo is not charged with bribery or with any conduct related to Mr. Cunningham and is not implicated in any way to the often-reported 'debauchery' or 'prostitution' acts described in the second indictment filed against Mr. Wilkes,” said the court document written by lawyers Mark J. MacDougall and W. Randolph Teslik.

A grand jury in San Diego issued two indictments in February. One charges Wilkes and Foggo with conspiracy, money laundering and honest services fraud. The government said Foggo used his influence at the CIA to direct $1.7 million in business deals to his best friend, Wilkes, who in turn lavished Foggo with gifts, expensive dinners, trips to Scotland and Hawaii, and promises of high-paying future employment, the government alleged.

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1. Gee Mr. Foggo

Maybe you'd prefer to have the trial in Hawai'i or Scotland so you can get in a quick nine after the day's testimony is over? You know the courses there so well. And after all the money Mr. Wilkes made off of your relationship, you want to be tried separately? Well, now that's gratitude.

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2. Dusty Foggo

Would any self-respecting juror in any venue vote to acquit someone with a name like that?